AND ITS GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 189 



Spec, in Mus. Brit. 



a, b, cj, ? ad. Nu, Port de Prance^ New Caledonia, May 13th, 1858 (/. Macgillivray, Esq. c, ad. 

 Lifu, Loyalty Islands {Rev. S. J. Whitmee). 



4. Artamus mentalis. 



Langrayen de Viti, Hombr. & Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, pi. 9. fig. 1 (1843). 



Artamus mentalis, Jardine, Ann. N. Hist. xvi. p. 174, pi. viii. (1845) ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 344 



(1850) ; Cass. U.S. Expl. Exp. Birds, p. 141 (1858) ; Gray, List B. Trop. Isl. Pacific 



Ocean, p. 23 (1858) ; Finsch & Hartl. Faun. Centralpolyn. p. 84, tab. 1. fig. 5 (1867) ; 



Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 289. no. 4281 (1869) ; Layard, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 434; id. Ibis, 



1876, p. 392. 

 Ocypterus mentalis, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. 1848, p. 84, pi. 23. fig. 2 ; Hartl. in Wiegm. 



Archiv, 1852, p. 98. 

 Artamus vitiensis, Hombr. & Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Zool. iii. p. 73 (1853) . 



d ad. suprk fuliginoso-niger, pileo vix saturatiore, scapnlaribus dorso concoloribus : uropygio imo et 

 supracaudalibus pure albis : rectricibus nigris, intus ad apicem conspicue albo terminatis : 

 ala tot& nigrS, : facie laterali gulaque nigris : genis posticis, guttiu'e imo et corpore reliquo 

 subtiis cum subalaribus axillaribusque pure albis : praepectoris lateribus fuliginoso-brunneis : 

 remigibus infra sordide cinereis, intus versiis basin albis : rostro pulchre cyanescente, apica- 

 liter nigro : pedibus corneo-nigricantibus : iride brunnea. Long. tot. 7"2, culmen 0'9, alse 

 5"05, caudse 2'8, tarsi 0-7. 



Hab. Fiji Islands — Ovalau, Waikaia, Mokani, Vanua Levu, Taviuni, 

 Loma Loma, Mango, Viti Levu (J^ayard). 



Spec, in Mus. Brit. 



a, (J . Island of Ovalau, August 1856 {F. M. Rayner). b, c, ^ . Island of Ngau, October 1853 

 {F. M. Rayner) . d. Ndreketti, Fiji (£. L. Layard) . 



5. Artamus monachus. 



Artamus monachus, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 343 (1850, ex Temm. MS. in Mus. Lugd.) ; 

 Wallace, Ibis, 1860, p. 141; id. P.Z.S. 1862, p. 340; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 289. 

 no. 4272 (1869) ; Walden, Tr.Z. S. viii. p. 67, pi. vi. fig. 1 (1872) ; Gould, B. New 

 Guinea, part vi. (1878) . 



